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Person Quotes by Jane Austen
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to…
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
- We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
- A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
- Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of…
- He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person.
- I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set…
- I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any…
- Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the…
- Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever…
- A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.
- She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a…
- The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object…
- Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say…
- Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that…
- What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the…
- At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are…
- There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
- Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.
- What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on…
- The person, be it lady or gentlemen who has not pleasure in a good book must be intoleranlty stupid.
- There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. Not till the reserve ceases towards one's self; and then the…
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- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
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